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places which hee mentioned, sayd then make a wesse and shoote
off a gunne and soe leave the shipp meaning the Recovery, and goe aboard of Captaine
Crofords (meaning the foresayd Crofords shipp) whereupon the
Shipps Company not being willing to forsake the shipp but desyrous
to preserve her and her ladeing did beare up the helme of the shipp and
make for Barbados which
the sayd Bartlett seeing, sayd doe what you will, I will take noe
such charge of the shipp, and soe went into his Cabbin and continued
there two or three dayes, and after tow or three dayes Came out of
his Cabbin againe and tooke upon him the charge of navigating
her as Master, and the winde not serving to get to the Barbados the
sayd Bartlet caused the Company to beare up for Antegoe and
they obeyed his Commands and brought her safe into five Island
harbour in ntego about the nynth of december arlate, it being one
of the neerest places to them, where with much labour at the pumpes and
great paines taken by the shipps Company shee safely arrived with her
ladeing, but saith before shee gott to Antego provisions were very scarce
on board, especially bread, and saith that after her coming to Antego
the sayd Bartlett and Company gott a supply of bread from
a Bristoll shipp which came thither while the sayd Bartlett laye there with
his shipp the Recoverie, and gott alsoe some beefe of a New
England shipp which came thither alsoe, before which supply this deponent
knoweth that victualls were soe scarce aboard the sayd shipp that the Company
lived upon Potatoe rootes and Cassava bread and Gallevants, and upon
Crabbs which they gathered in the woods in the night tyme, for which reasons
hee verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience that the provisions of
victualls which the sayd shipp Recovery had on board her when shee made for
Antego would not have served her till shee came to England for that when
shee made for Antego she shee was not above two hundred leagues or
Thereabouts from the Barbados, and had about eleaven hundred leagues
to have gone before shee could have arrived in England, And further
saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose. saving hee saith that
of this deponents knowledge the sayd shipps Company after her arrivall
at Antego did there by order of the sayd Bartlet unlade the sayd shipp/

To the 7th article And the schedule therein mentioned hee saith that of his
this deponents sight and knowledge there was a view taken of the sayd
shipp Recovery and of her leakes and insufficiencies by order of the
Governor of Antego who him selfe came aboard with the viewers, but
what returne was made thereof hee knoweth not, And further saving
his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose for that hee was not made
privie to the rest of the transactions arlate./

To the 8th article hee saith That the arlate Tawley and Company the
parties in this suite did of this deponents knowledge sight and observation
during all the tyme of the voyage from Barbados where this deponent
came

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Potatoes

John Davies, The history of the Caribby-Islands viz. Barbados, St Christophers, St Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Monserrat, Mevis [sic], Antego, &c. in all XXVIII. : In two books. The first containing the natural; the second, the moral history of those islands. : Illustrated with several pieces of sculpture, representing the most considerable rarities therein described. : With a Caribbian-vocabulary (London, 1666), p,56^[1]

History Of Caribby-Islands Davies J 1656 p57.PNG

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[[Primary sources::John Davies, The history of the Caribby-Islands viz. Barbados, St Christophers, St Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Monserrat, Mevis [sic, Antego, &c. in all XXVIII. : In two books. The first containing the natural; the second, the moral history of those islands. : Illustrated with several pieces of sculpture, representing the most considerable rarities therein described. : With a Caribbian-vocabulary (London, 1666)]

- NOTE FROM OPEN LIBRARY: "A free translation of: Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amérique, first published in Rotterdam, 1658. "Davies added material not found in the French edition and left out material, as well." -- Echeverria & Wilkie. Authorship from Echeverria & Wilkie. Also been attributed to Louis de Poincy and to César de Rochefort."

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25379733M/The_history_of_the_Caribby-Islands]]

↑ John Davies, The history of the Caribby-Islands (London, 1666), p.56

[1] John Davies, The history of the Caribby-Islands (London, 1666), p.56

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Status
Volume	HCA 13/72
Folio	63
Side	Recto
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First transcriber
Colin Greenstreet
First transcribed
2013/03/05
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Edited on 17/05/2013 by Colin Greenstreet